Union Central Life Insurance v. Fulton National Bank

Only one question is presented for determination by this court, that is, where an assured is a fare-paying passenger aboard a regularly scheduled airline passenger flight, and meets death as a result of a crash of the aircraft into a mountain, is the beneficiary of the deceased precluded from recovering double indemnity because of the following clause in the contract of insurance: “Death is not a risk hereby assumed if it results directly or indirectly (a) from military or naval service in time of war or relief service in connection therewith, or (b) from service in or about or from travel or…